It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

There is only ONE Saviour, Jesus Christ.

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

We are ugly but we have the music.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.